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January 11

Advocacy Institute8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m., salon gMarriott Philadelphia
Open to all library advocates, the institute
will focus on message development
and coalition building and
will feature afternoon breakout sessions
on making budget presentations,
crisis communications, and
passing bond issues and referenda.
Onsite registration is $75. For more
information, visit www.ala.org/
advocacyinstitute/.

Coordinated by the Office for
Library Advocacy and the Advocacy
Institute Task Force of the ALA Public
Awareness Committee, in cooper-ation with the Public Information
Office, the Association for Library
Trustees and Advocates, the Chapter
Relations Office, the Committee on
Legislation, and Friends of Libraries
USA.

YALSA’s Gaming Extravaganza8–10 p.m., millennium hallLoews Philadelphia
Experienced gamers, beginners, and
everyone in between will find something
new in the world of online,
video, and tabletop games, while enjoying
refreshments,

Tickets are $40. Winners of YALSA’s
“Create Your Own Avatar Contest”
(AL, Dec., p. 14) will be
announced. For more information,
visit www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/.

January 12

Washington Office Update Session8–10:a.m., room 108 APCC
Bassem Youssef, the highest ranking
Arab-American agent employed by
the FBI, will speak about his experience
with the bureau’s counter-terrorism
surveillance activities,
including National Security Letters.

Tom Susman, partner, Ropes and
Gray LLP, will discuss the effect of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act on libraries.

In a breakout session from 10:30
a.m.to noon, a discussion titled “All
(Telecom) Politics Is Local: What the
FCC is up to, and what it has to do
with your library” will be held.

To be moderated by Alan Inouye,
director of ALA’s Office for Information
Technology Policy, the session will include a discussion of the February
17, 2009, Digital Television
Transition, in which libraries are set
to play a big role.

The ALA Government Documents
Round Table update will feature representatives
from the Library of Congress,
the Federal Depository Library
Program, and Indiana University.

“A Continuation of the Deliberative
Dialogue” is the topic of the last
breakout session. On December 12,
ALA’s Committee on Legislation
sponsored a “Deliberative Dialogue”
on government information, with an
emphasis on how the Association
can develop an ongoing process for
the consideration and articulation of
policy positions. Due to overwhelming
response, this discussion continues
at Midwinter.

Nuts and Bolts workshop10:30 a.m.–noon, Washington RoomFour Seasons Philadelphia
Library Friends, volunteers, and staff
are invited to share best practices and
hear from experts on membership
and board development, fundraising,
advocacy, and strategic planning.
Roundtable discussions will be moderated
by Friend of Libraries USA
board members. Conference registration
is not required to participate in
this program. Sponsored by FOLUSA.

White Privilege1:30–3:30 pm, Lescaze RoomLoews Philadelphia
The Diversity Discussion Group will
uncover how white privilege has
evolved, how it is perpetuated today,
and what librarians can do in their
roles to unhinge its power. Sponsored
by the Office for Diversity.

Spotlight on Adult Literature2–4 p.m., Exhibit HallPCC
Participating publishers will feature
book signings and some will give
away free books or galleys. Register
at the FOLUSA booth (#611) for
prizes.

Conference registration or an exhibits
only pass is required to participate
in this program.

“Working with the FaceBook Generation: Engaging Student Views on Access to Scholarship”4–6 p.m., Room 204 A/BPCC
The forum will feature Andre Brown,
doctoral student at the University of
Pennsylvania, and coblogger for Biocurious;
Kimberly Douglas, university
librarian, California Institute of
Technology; Nelson Pavlosky, law
student, George Mason University and cofounder of Students for
Freeculture; and Stephanie Wang,
graduate student at Princeton University
and former National Coordinating
Committee member,
Universities Allied for Essential
Medicines.

The first Sparky Award winners
for the best short videos on the value
of information sharing will be
showcased.

The ACRL Scholarly Communication
Discussion Group will continue
the forum discussion January 14 from
4 to 6 p.m., Franklin 11 Room, Marriott
Philadelphia.

Sponsored by the Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources
Coalition and the Association of
College and Research Libraries.

January 13

Diversity Research Tea/Poster Session4–6 p.m., Adams RoomFour Seasons Philadelphia
The Diversity Research Grant program,
sponsored by the Office for Diversity,
addresses critical gaps in the
knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science. Topics
for 2008 grant applications will be
announced and attendees will have
the chance to review poster sessions
by past recipients.

January 14

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Sunrise Observance6:30–7:30 a.m., Room 113PCC
Speaker Ganga Dakshinamurti will
share her perspective on the connections
between Dr.
King and Mahatma Gandhi
in a presentation titled
“A Challenging
Inspiration Lighting Our
Way: From Gandhi to
King Jr. to Us.”

Dakshinamurti, librarian
at the Albert Cohen
Management Library,
Asper School of Business
at the University of Manitoba, is past
president of ALA’s Asian/Pacific
American Librarians Association.

Hear selected quotes from Dr.
King’s writings and speeches, as well
as music from a local choir, and enjoy
light refreshments.

Sponsored by Black Caucus of the
American Library Association, the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Task Force, and ALA’s Social Responsibilities

“New Roles for Acquisitions: Selecting and Harvesting for Institutional Repositories”1:30– 3 p.m., Room 204CPCC
The forum will address the latest
transformational change that has
taken place in research libraries—
the development of institutional
repositories.

Karl Debus-López of the National
Agricultural Library and Trisha Davis
of Ohio State University will give presentations
on how they have restructured
their acquisitions operations to
manage the selection and harvesting
of content for their institutions’ digital
repositories. Sponsored by the ALCTS
Acquisitions Section Forum.
Round Table.

Attendees will enjoy a selection of
desserts and finger sandwiches,
along with coffee and tea. A book
signing will follow the author presentations.
Some books will be given
away free and others will be
available for purchase at a generous
discount.

Tickets are $35 in advance ($30
for FOLUSA members) or $45 onsite.
Advance tickets are available
online at www.folusa.org or by calling
800-936-5872 through January
8. Tickets will be available, while
supplies last, at booth 611 in the Exhibit
Hall during all exhibit hours
and just prior to the event at the
door.

“Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment”6:30 p.m., Grand hall OverlookNational Constitution Center,525 Arch St., Independence Mall
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony
Lewis will be discussing his
new book, Freedom for the Thought
That We Hate, with Chris Finan,
president of the American Booksellers
Foundation for Free Expression
and trustee for ALA’s Freedom To
Read Foundation. He will discuss
how our First Amendment rights
were created and reveal a story of
hard choices surrounding one of
American’s great founding ideas. A
book signing follows.

Tickets are $12 for Constitution
Center members, $15 for nonmembers,
and $6 for K–12 students and
teachers. Reservations are required.
For more information, visit
programs@constitutioncenter.org or
call 215-409-6700.

Sponsored by the National Constitution
Center and the Freedom to
Read Foundation.